9 Best Comic Book Insults Ever
2. Captain America And Iron Man: "You Low Rent Mercenary!"
Much like the previously dissected relationship between DC's Superman and Batman, Marvel's black-and-white pairing of Iron Man and Captain America has been the cause for many a conflict across the characters' joint comic book history.
Every fan, avid or casual, can tell you about the monumental clash between the Golden Avenger and the Star Spangled Man as seen in Civil War. However, long before a battle of this scale, Iron Man and Captain America have come to blows both verbal and physical many times before.
In what is one of their first clashes, Iron Man arrives late to an Avengers rescue mission due to his insistence that Avengers are entitled to 'their privacy', a remark that leads Cap to slug Iron Man in the (most likely hard-as-hell) jaw. Declaring Stark nothing more than a "low rent mercenary", Thor and Scarlett Witch wade in to break up the arguing pair.
Far less a singular insult than it was indicative of many more fights to come, Captain America labelling Iron Man just a common mercenary was the first sign of stress in an ever-rocky allegiance that would eventually evolve into a war, and change the course of the Marvel universe forever.